FitClinic: Mind The Mat's Big Reveal!

Wellness
Written By Sara VanderGoot

We've been hinting for a while now that something big is coming to Mind the Mat. It's our first App called FitClinic by Mind the Mat (coming in January 2023!), where all our specialized expert classes in prenatal, post-pregnancy, athletic recovery and therapeutics for medical conditions and post-surgery will be at your fingertips - no matter where you are in the world!

We are part of a worldwide fitness revolution that is less focused on the old adage of "pain-free" and more interested in teaching people everywhere how to move with efficiency, confidence, and possibility based on their individual needs and stage of life. We believe in a world where everybody can be fit because fitness is customizing your movement based on your needs and stage of life and deepening your understanding of your body.  

To give you an in-person taste of what's coming on our new App, Dr. Megan Brown P.T., Caroline Deitch e-RYT 500, and Sara VanderGoot, Licensed Massage Therapist and e-RYT 500, are launching in-person Fit Clinics starting in November. What are Fit Clinics? In-depth monthly workshops that fill the gap between pain and performance by empowering you with life-enhancing knowledge, tools, and techniques so you can optimize how you move on and off the mat. You might be recovering from an injury or surgery, living with a medical condition or pain, or simply wanting to gain more knowledge about how your body works. Fit Clinics are for you if you are motivated to learn how to move freely, without discomfort or restriction.  

Check out the schedule of Fit Clinics happening on the second Thursday evening of each month from 5:00pm - 6:30pm at Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga in Del Ray, Alexandria. Find out more about these specialized workshops below. 

Work your way from your feet to your head! Take one or all of these:

  • Fit Clinic for Happy Feet - Your feet are your foundation - learn how to take good care of them with Caroline Deitch, e-RYT 500, November 10.

  • Fit Clinic for Core "Stability” - Master core muscle recruitment with Doctor of Physical Therapy Megan Brown, December 8.

  • Fit Clinic for Happy Hips & Back - Join Caroline Deitch, e-RYT 500, to re-educate your body out of movement patterns that are causing discomfort so that you can relax, January 12.

  • Fit Clinic for Happy Shoulders & Hands - "Most of my clients deal with pain in their shoulders, but the why is different for everyone." Let massage therapist and yoga instructor, Sara VanderGoot, help you heal your shoulders, wrists, and hands, February 9.

  • Fit Clinic for a Happy Neck - We all need this one! Join Sara VanderGoot, massage therapist and yoga instructor, to find out nuanced techniques to release discomfort in your neck, March 9.

  • Fit Clinic for The Whole Body - Join Doctor of Physical Therapy Megan Brown to find out what whole-body fitness really means for you, April 13.

Sara VanderGoot

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Co-Owner | Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga

Sara VanderGoot, CMT, e-RYT 200, RYT 500, is Co-founder of Mind the Mat Pilates and Yoga and Director of Mind the Mat Yoga Alliance certified teacher training program. Sara is an experienced Registered Yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance. She studied Interdisciplinary Yoga with Don and Amba Stapleton in Nosara, Costa Rica and at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Sara is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, licensed by the Virginia Board of Nursing. Sara has been practicing massage therapy, including specialties Prenatal Massage, Postpartum Massage, Deep Tissue Massage and Thai Yoga Massage, in Del Ray, Alexandria for over 15 years and a yoga instructor for 7 years. At Mind the Mat she specializes in Prenatal Yoga, Postpartum Core Yoga, Mommy and Me Core Yoga, Partners Yoga, and Hot Flow Yoga. Sara frequently acts as a birth companion for many of her clients, doing massage and yoga during labor and delivery to facilitate comfort during both medicated and unmedicated births. Before becoming a massage therapist and yoga instructor, she was a lawyer in the Washington D.C. area and found that the healing practices of massage and yoga brought a balance to her life that she had been searching for.

Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga was founded in 2008 by Megan Brown, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Polestar Certified Practitioner of Pilates for Rehabilitation and Sara VanderGoot, Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher (e-RYT 200, RYT 500). In their private practices as physical therapist and massage therapist respectively Megan and Sara observed that many of their clients were coming in with similar needs: relief for neck and shoulder tension and low back pain as well as a desire for more flexibility in hips and legs, stability in joints, and core strength.

Together Megan and Sara carefully crafted a curriculum of Pilates and yoga classes to address needs for clients who are pregnant, postpartum, have injuries or limitations, who are new to Pilates and yoga, and for those who are advanced students and are looking for an extra challenge.

www.mindthemat.com     

2214 Mount Vernon Avenue

Alexandria, VA 22301

703.683.2228

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